A subcommittee of the London County Council’s Education Committee today announced that it had turned down a series of appeals that the school buildings in this city be denied to Sir Oswald Mosley’s fascists for public meetings.
Among the groups which had called for a ban on fascist “Union Movement” meetings in public school buildings were: the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the National Council for Civil Liberties, local trades councils and the London School-masters Association. In its statement to the subcommittee, the Board of Deputies declared that “it is wrong to permit the use of the schools for teaching racial discrimination and religious intolerance.” The subcommittee replied that it was not the Council’s policy to “discriminate” in permitting the schools to be used as meeting places.
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